Podcast: Sweet music
Is the treasury fiddling while the music industry burns? The industry is worth a vast 5.5 Billion pounds a year to the UK’s economy yet help for musicians, most of whom are freelance, is crumbs.
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Mental Wellbeing Podcast: Ep 2
The second of our Mental Wellbeing podcasts, featuring Katie Matthews, founder of The Mind Tribe, and Stewart White, Director at Blue Shadow, a Mental Health First Aid training company.
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Podcast: Blowing in the wind: the jobs hanging by a thread
Business woman Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation, Mark Hart Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School and freelance IT consultant and business analyst Philip Ross analyse the prospects for the UK’s small businesses and self-employed workers for the autumn and winter. The verdict: blustery winds and heavy weather ahead.
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Podcast: Taking the temperature…
In this week’s podcast we discuss the impact of the government’s schemes so far: what’s worked and what hasn’t; who has been left behind and who has benefitted and what does the Government need to discuss at the ongoing virtual Conservative Party Conference this week.
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Podcast: Midnight doesn’t happen anymore
On top of new restrictions comes the Chancellor’s latest thinking about schemes to save jobs and support businesses through the next wave of the pandemic. How effective will the measures be and who will be losers and who will be winners.
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Mental Wellbeing Podcast: Ep 1
In the months since we launched BackinBusiness we’ve noticed small business owners and self-employed people struggling with the impacts of Covid-19 and the uncertainty for their firms, livelihoods and families.
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Podcast: Out of every crisis comes opportunity?
People are shutting down their business and leaving the self-employed sector in their hundreds of thousands. On the other hand people are planning to use redundancy payments to start up new ventures. Is this the time to start-up and if so how do you give yourself the best chance of success? Join the discussion and for those of you of a nervous disposition – there is an ‘F’ word in this podcast.
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Podcast: The economy’s pipeline
Supply chains might sound boring but without ones that work the things we need aren’t on the shelves, in our workplaces or available to the NHS. We need the trucks, planes, and boats to keep operating and the manufacturers to keep making. How solid are our current chains and links?
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Podcast: A chain of events
One of the business sectors worst hit due to Covid-19 is the events sector. Whether it’s sport, music, weddings or the children’s party the virus has played havoc.
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Podcast: The trials of the rural entrepreneur
Three small business people discuss the issues they face operating in rural areas.
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